On December 6, 2018, VE firm Global Warming from Bearden High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, recently featured by 23 ABC News for collecting and donating socks to homeless shelters, was profiled by Knox News on the strength of the company’s first place finish in the Tennessee State Business Plan Competition at the 2018 Southern Regional Conference and Exhibition, marking Bearden’s sixth state championship in eight years.
“’This class has definitely been my favorite at Bearden,’ [chief marketing officer Matt Carr] said. ‘It prepares you better than any other class. It teaches you how to be in the workplace.'”
Read the full story: “Local high school students build business, collect 1,400 pairs of socks for homeless“